Category: News
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ARIAS: Arts & Ecology
Category: NewsHow do the arts and artistic research contribute to planetary-scale questions of ecological transformation and disaster? This evening will feature three examples of special ways in which the arts trace the cultural, political and social implications of local and global moving resources, showing the shifting contexts and social ecologies of…
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Lecture: The Life of Plants by Emanuele Coccia
Category: NewsThis Stevin Seminar (CLUE+) addresses the life of plants from philosophical, biological and artistic perspectives.
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Lecture: Na het neoliberalisme – Klimaatverandering, sociale bewegingen en politiek
Category: NewsOn Thursday 31 May, Hein-Anton van der Heijden will visit the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) to present his most recently written book: Na het neoliberalisme – Klimaatverandering, sociale bewegingen en politiek (2017).
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Media: Petra van Dam on the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum
Category: NewsThe publication of our board member Petra van Dam’s new book on the 200-year history of the the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum Van Amsterdams peil naar Europees Referentievlak: De Geschiedenis van het NAP tot 2018 drew a lot of attention from newspapers and radio.
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Interview with René ten Bos: Life in the Anthropocene
Category: NewsOn Friday, 16th February a group of students, academics and other inquisitive attendants came together to listen to a lecture by ‘Thinker Laureate’ René ten Bos, Professor of Philosophy at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. He was granted the title of ‘Thinker Laureate’ in the Spring of 2017, and will…
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How Gardens Feel: The Natural History of Sensation in Spenser and Milton
Category: NewsMichael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan Lecture organized by ACCESS, the Amsterdam Centre for Cross-Disciplinary Emotions and Sensory Studies (CLUE+). Wednesday 18 April 2018 3.30 -5.00pm, drinks afterwards Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building Room: 13A33 In this talk, Michael Schoenfeldt explores the relation between the environment and the sensation of…
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How Will Art Survive Us? Lecture by Tal Beery, 22 May
Category: NewsRespondent: Joost Adriaanse and Juliette Huijgen Date: Tuesday, 22 May 2018 Time: 4 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. Room: VU main building, room HG-12A33 Drinks afterwards Attendance is free of charge; please register using the form below. Facing social and ecological changes that may threaten the very survival of our species,…
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Water & the City Symposium, 23 March
Category: NewsTags: Amsterdam Rainproof, Amsterdam Water Science, city, cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage Agency, Daniël Goedbloed, Ellen Vreenegoor, hydrocitizenship, NAP, Petra van Dam, Polderdak, Resilient cities, rising sea levels, water, water managementEnvironmental Humanities Center Symposium Friday 23 March 2018, 14.00 – 17.00u Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building, room 12A-00 For catering reasons, please register using the form below. Climate change, increasing rainfall, sea level rise, and flood risk pose significant challenges for low-lying countries such as The Netherlands. Historically, Amsterdam has…
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Presidential Academic Fellowship in Environmental History (Manchester)
Category: NewsThe History department of the University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Presidential Fellow specialising in environmental history. Environmental history is a growing area of research that seeks to understand how people have understood, shaped and been shaped by their world. Applications are welcome from researchers working on any historical…
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Lecture René ten Bos: Leven in het Antropoceen
Category: News16 February 2018, 15.30hrs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building Room 10A-00 Please register below. The Dutch ‘Thinker Laureate’ (Denker des Vaderlands) René ten Bos will visit the Environmental Humanities Center to talk about his new book Dwalen in het Antropoceen. Please note that this lecture will be in Dutch. Leven…